Month: February 2004

Somewhere along the way, I signed up for updates from Howard Dean’s campaign website. I never actually got around to contributing, but Dean captured my interest straight away (in much the same way that all the other candidates failed to) and I wanted to know more. I was genuinely sorry to see his campaign implode the way it did.

That being said, I’m a little uncertain how to respond to yesterday’s e-mail from the former governor, in which he asks for donations to help pay off the “$400,000 debt owed by the Dean for America campaign for expenses incurred in the last thirty days.”

Maybe it’s just me, but that seems just a little, I don’t know, tacky.

Learn to write like Monty Python. Golly, and for only $36? It’s a steal! (For the humor-impaired, that was sarcasm. Although, if you’re really humor-impaired, maybe this e-book is for you.)

Not that my stints writing for the Monty Python Society and a campus sketch comedy show qualify me as any kind of expert, but if you’re serious about writing funny, I think there are easier ways to go about it. That money would probably be better spent towards the purchase of a copy of Final Draft software, which more than anything will ease the process of writing scripts.

The rest is sense of humor and paying attention to what works. Comedy, like everything else, does have rules. But I doubt you can learn them from a 90-page PDF, much less learn how to use them, or when to break them.

Although I am somewhat curious about their “101 Great Ideas for a Sketch”. If I had more disposable income, I might buy a copy just so I could make fun of it.

Finding the time to interview people over the phone can be very difficult when you’re at work all day long. I could, of course, just hope no one would notice if I made a phone call to Harrisburg, but for now I’m going to see if the person who contacted me the state press office is amenable to an e-mail interview.

There are rare moments when I wish I owned a cell phone.

There are, of course, moments when I wish I had more need for a cell phone, but that’s another story.